Senior Database Reliability Engineer I - Germany/Austria/UK
Storyblok · Engineering · Senior · 1mo ago
Open to candidates living in Germany, Austria, United Kingdom.
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Open to candidates living in Germany, Austria, United Kingdom.
“Senior Database Reliability Engineer I - Germany/Austria/UK”
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- Contractor / B2B
- No mention of hiring international contractors or invoicing.
- Global stipend
- Provides a monthly remote work stipend for internet and electricity, a starter hardware package, and an upgrade budget or co-working space membership.
- Annual retreat
- Offers an annual international team-building trip alongside online gatherings.
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About the role
In this role, you will own the reliability, performance, and cost efficiency of the PostgreSQL data platform powering Storyblok's flagship CMS. Working within a shared-ownership model, you will provide the platform guardrails, query and index strategies, connection pooling, zero-downtime schema migrations, and disaster recovery tooling. You will also participate as a member of the Infrastructure team delivering Terraform and AWS automation, maintaining observability pipelines, and participating in the on-call rotation.
What you'll do
- Own the reliability, performance, capacity planning, and scalability of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.
- Lead zero-downtime version upgrades, schema migrations, and vacuum and bloat management at scale.
- Review backend schema changes and DDL for lock behavior, migration safety, and query performance.
- Deliver infrastructure as code via Terraform on AWS and manage database CI/CD automation.
- Build and maintain observability, alerting, and monitoring tools using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry.
- Participate in the on-call rotation, drive root-cause analysis, and conduct postmortems.
What you bring
- 7+ years in database engineering, database reliability, infrastructure, or SRE roles with deep production PostgreSQL ownership.
- Deep PostgreSQL expertise covering internals, MVCC, EXPLAIN plans, indexing strategy, locking, and configuration tuning.
- Strong hands-on experience with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and AWS-managed database services.
- Solid experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform on AWS and Linux scripting.
- Proven track record of zero-downtime upgrades, replication, partitioning, and automated disaster-recovery drills.
- Willingness and ability to participate in an incident response on-call rotation.
About Storyblok
Storyblok is a headless content management system enabling developers and marketers to build and deliver structured content across websites, apps, and platforms.
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